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  Mysterious Skin 2004

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  This is going straight in, to be one of my faves.

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  Die Hard 1988

  ★★★ Watched 01 Dec 2024

  Flight back from SF

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  Dune 2021

  ★★ Added

  Not even the Javier Bardem can save a film from the tragedy of Dave Bautistas supercharged melodrama.

  Moments of intrigue in this film; some nice shots, some believable performances from Bardem, Chalamet, Isaac and the like, and thats about it.

  I don't know how such big budget films can land with so many vapid, generic, un-interesting sets. This film would do well to include far more evidence of life in its sets, rather than vast empty rooms and corridors, somewhere in the cosmos. So clean cut and organised that it leaves no excuse for the stupidity of the characters within in them.

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  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003

  ★★★★★ Added 1

  The quintessential cinematic experience. Un-ignorably impressive. Standout performances. Genre defining characters. Story telling in its essence.

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